According to the media release, 6 men were arrested for their involvement in illegal gambling.
According to the Singapore Police Force, they had conducted a raid at Woodland Street 32 and Marsilng Road. A total of $800 along with some gambling equipment were seized on the scene.
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED
40 people were spotted gathering at a bus stop located near 20 Marsiling Lane Market and Food Centre for illegal betting. It is believed that a bookie had set up a betting station at the bus stop to collect bets for horse racing. Those involved were mostly elderly.
It is still unsure if any of these men were linked to the incident.
According to the media, a resident staying at Block 655B Jurong West Street 61 were caught stealing pandan leaves from their neighbour.
According to the owner, their family had been planting panda plant outside their residences for many years. Over the years, the panda leaves were stolen from them multiple time. Last year alone, the panda leaves were stolen for at least 10 times.
After hearing several complaints from his grandmother about the stealing, the owner decides to install CCTV to catch the thieves.
Apparent, they are not the only household who went through such experience. Some of the residents staying in the same block had a similar experience as well.
According to them, they are willing to share their plant with their neighbour. Those who want it just have to ask.
A police investigation is ongoing for the incident.
A 34 year old Bangladeshi migrant worker, Sikdar, who was diagnosed with advanced stomach cancer in April 2020 has returned home to see his family.
The Migrant Workers’ Centre started a donation campaign on giving.sg to raise funds to evacuate the migrant worker home.
Sceenshot from Bangladeshi local news clip
As of Monday morning (May 25), S$51,018 has been raised from 427 donors.
While the medical evacuation was estimated to cost about S$48,000, the fundraising target was set at S$60,000 for any excess to fund the needs that may come to help support his return home, MWAF said on the fundraising page.
When Sikdar realised that his cancer has spread throughout his body and that no treatment was possible, he opted for euthanasia. But Sikdar hope that he could return home to see his six year old son.
Sceenshot from Bangladeshi local news clip
Crowdfunding only started about 24 hours before Sikdar got home and it was indeed amazing that the targeted amount was hit in such a short time frame.
Sceenshot from Bangladeshi local news clip
Good job to all individuals who took part in this campaign to bring Mr Sikdar home.
An employee of Iman Childcare (Tampines) was among three Singaporeans to have been infected by the corona virus.
The 33 year old woman was one of the 548 new cases bringing the total to 31,616.
The other case was a 55 year old man who went to work at the SSKBJV Dormitory.
The third Singaporean is a 35 year old woman who is a household contact of a 37 year old man linked to the CDPL Tuas Dormitory which has 687 confirmed case.
Of the 548 new cases, 544 were work permit holders in dormitories while three were Singaporeans and permanent residents. One of the new cases was a work permit holder outside the dormitories, and there were no imported cases.
On the 23 May 2020, Singaporean DJ Jade Rasif had shared her experiences with a 14-year-old sending her explicit photos of themselves.
This is all thanks to a few viral videos that she had posted on social media platform TikTok reaching out to more than 1 million views.
However, many of these followers are at a young age, some had even sent her adult-only messages and pictures via various social media platforms. Some of these messages were shared by her on Instagram Story.
She had raised her concern on the well being of youngster nowadays while questioning where did the youngster learn all this. She had since deleted all the explicit content and urges her followers not to send any more messages of such content to her.
Singaporean, Ms Lerine Li, 42, hopes of a fresh start in the United States have turned into a nightmare as she battles cancer alone. Her family in Singapore is desperately trying to bring her home so she can spend her final days with her family.
Due to the Covid outbreak, the option of flying home on a commercial flight with a nurse is now not possible. This option would already cost $35,000. Her only option now is an air ambulance which would cost a hefty $235,000.
Her family now is trying to raise the money as cancer slowly tightens its grip on Ms Liu.
Ms Liu arrive in New York three months ago to start a new life after ending a four year relationship. She manage to get a job in merchandising and she found an apartment in New Jersey. But due to the corona outbreak, he job offer was rescinded.
She was then diagnosed with stage four breast cancer which has spread to her lungs and her liver. Ms Liu’s savings have also been “wiped out, with probably only about a few thousand left in her bank account”, her sister said.
“We want to bring her back to Singapore so that we can walk the last leg of her journey with her… Lerine keeps saying she wants to come back, and I just want to grant her last wish,” Her sister added.
Her hospital bills are being covered by an assistance programme under the New Jersey State Department of Health.
According to a media release, The Singapore Police Force (SPF) and the Royal Malaysia (RMP) Police had join forces to bring down a love scam syndicate in Kuala Lumpur (KL).
The operation was carried out on the 19 May 2020, 4 suspects were arrested, which includes 1 Malaysian woman and 3 Nigerian men.
The RMP carry out the operation based on information provided by SPF.
The 4 arrested were involved in 8 online love scam which involved more than $400,000. Several electronic devices were found on the scene, which includes phones and laptop.
Investigation is ongoing.
SPF Advisory :
“Members of the public are advised to be careful when befriending strangers online. They should also be wary when asked to send money to people whom they do not know or have not met in person before. If they are contacted by a stranger via the phone, demanding for payment to a bank account in relation to government fines or charges, remain calm and stop communicating with him immediately, because this is most probably a scam.
For more information on scams, members of the public can visit scamalert.sg or call the Anti-Scam Hotline at 1800-722-6688. Anyone with information on such scams may also call the Police hotline at 1800-255 0000 or submit information online at www.police.gov.sg/iwitness.”
A video has been circulating on SG Road Vigilante which depicts a group of close to 50 people can be seen gathering at a petrol kiosk before racing together at night.
They can be seen dressed in their Hari Raya Clothing. They looked like they were in a joyous mood shouting and chanting in front of the camera.
If this is the way they party, then they should be punished in accordance to respective circuit breaker laws.
According to the media release, during Hari Raya Puasa thousands of people were spotted gathering at the mosque for prayers in Indonesia. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries had implemented preventive measures to fight the virus.
In Indonesia, some of these measures were relaxed to allow people to celebrate Hari Raya Puasa.
Indonesia is one of the countries with the most Muslim population, the government had implemented travel bans within the country. But the measures have been temporary relax, hundreds of mosque in Indonesia had open up to allow people to come for prayers. People were requested to wear a face mask and observe social distancing.
However, these measures were not followed as reported by the media. Many people were spotted without a mask and failed to keep a safe distance from one another.
As of 24 May 2020, 524 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Indonesia. This has tallied the total number of cases to 22271. The death reported had increased to 1371 with 21 new death reported.
